Replies to post #428771 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The way I read it is the purposeful intent to drag in dems and attempting to impress upon people that dems are a problem too, a problem to themselves and then constant drum of defection away from the nazi party by soft peddling "dems are just as bad, or dems are confused, or dems won't beat some sort of manipulated poll predictions.

What I'm saying is the pundits and 'expert' pollsters are lazy and complacent with pushing the safe rhetoric. While constantly putting a negative spin on anything dem.

When one writes, what's not being written is just as important, or maybe more so than what is worded.

Like, I wonder if it's true that don jr isn't a shittypants by blood? So he's out of the will?
See, now my comment may be picked up and spread around with other comments, but the effect is done. Did I or did I not just interject some doubt about jr?
Like fucker charlatan of faux spews, he only asks 'questions' right?

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This is sickening. Certainly there is massive democratic groups pulling the same shit.
Right?

Whole article with link, the little firefox page reader works on this link.

https://www.aol.com/partisan-mailer-poses-catholic-newspaper-231812819.html

Partisan mailer poses as Catholic newspaper in Arizona
AOL Staff
5-6 minutes

PHOENIX (AP) — Nicole Leonardi initially thought a new newspaper had arrived in her mailbox this week. But a closer look at the “Arizona Catholic Tribune” revealed a different story.

While it had all the attributes of a traditional print newspaper, including a tagline that read “Real data. Real value. Real news,” the pledge did not match the content.

Leonardi, a Democrat living in Tempe, Arizona, who is not Catholic, quickly realized the paper was fake, a partisan conservative publication with content critical of local Democratic candidates. The paper is also not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, which has disavowed it.

“I thought it was a real paper so I pulled it out,” Leonardi said. “It’s only when you dig in a bit when you realize that it’s fully pushing right-wing talking points.”

The Phoenix area was not the only region where papers with the “real news” tagline recently showed up. Similar publications reportedly arrived in mailboxes in cities in Iowa and Illinois.

The Arizona Catholic Tribune's Facebook page identifies its owner as Franklin Archer, which is part of a multi-state network of partisan online and print publications posing as local media outlets, according to Priyanjana Bengani, a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

“We’ve been here before. They did this in Wisconsin before the 2020 election. They did this in Kansas before the referendum in August about abortion,” Bengani said. “I think the number of physical papers we’ve seen this election cycle is more than what we saw in the 2020 cycle.”

Bengani has traced the networks back to Brian Timpone, who describes himself as a “media executive” on a LinkedIn profile, and Bradley Cameron, a strategy consultant. Cameron, Timpone, the Arizona Catholic Tribune, and several companies that are part of the extended network of publications did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.

As part of her research for the Tow Center, Bengani has identified more than 1,200 news sites that are part of the network.